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Appeals court upholds sentences for NXIVM sex cult leaders Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged appeals denied, Clare Bronfman, criminal convictions, cult leader, Keith Raniere, NXIVM

A federal appeals court Friday upheld the convictions and sentences for NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere and his co-conspirator, Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman. Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison after his conviction in Brooklyn federal…[Continue Reading...]

The end is nigh! Four-in-ten adults say we’re ‘living in the end times,’ including half of Christians, says survey amid alarm over pandemics, climate change, nuclear brinkmanship, and doomsday cults

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged doomsday, doomsday cults, end times

Nearly four-in-ten Americans say we're 'living in the end times,' says a poll taken against a stark backdrop of climate change, the pandemic, nuclear brinkmanship and doomsday cults. A Pew Research Center survey of more than 10,000 adults found that…[Continue Reading...]

How 8 girls in Arizona protective care ended up back with a polygamous cult over 1,000 miles away

Published December 10, 2022 By admin with Comments 2

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Polygamists, sexual exploitation, underage girls

Samuel Bateman, the self-anointed "prophet" of a polygamous FLDS cult, was arrested in August after three young girls were found hidden in a cargo trailer that law enforcement said he was towing on a highway in Flagstaff, Arizona — over…[Continue Reading...]

The Dramatic Rise of Self-Described “Psychics” in the 2020s

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cold reading, fraud, psychics, scam

My reason for beginning this article as such is directly due to the controversy in the field, and the most common accusations that these individuals are little more than cold readers. Though I personally by nature am also a skeptic…[Continue Reading...]

Psychic conned woman out of millions to lift curses. She didn’t predict what happened next

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal conviction, fraud, Miami, psychic, scam

A fortune teller swindled a Miami woman out of more than $3 million by convincing her that she needed a medium to remove the curses out of her life. The psychic, however, didn’t foresee her own future: years behind bars…[Continue Reading...]

Rapist who was freed from jail before using Covid loans to fund Isis is found guilty of providing money for terrorism

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged criminal conviction, ISIS, radicalization, UK

A convicted rapist who was radicalised in prison funnelled more than £18,000 of taxpayers’ cash to Islamic State in his Syria homeland. Tarek Namouz, 43, claimed Covid loans from Hammersmith and Fulham Council for his west London barbershop but sent…[Continue Reading...]

33 ISIS wives are SLAUGHTERED by terror group rivals Boko Haram to ‘avenge’ a commander killed in Islamic State attack

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Boko Haram, ISIS, murders, Nigeria

Islamist militant group Boko Haram has reportedly slain at least 33 wives of Islamic State fighters in a bloody revenge attack as fighting between the rival groups continues to escalate. The massacre is thought to have been instigated earlier this…[Continue Reading...]

Petition calling for ex-Unification Church’s disbandment handed to govt.

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Japan, public outcry, Unification Church

Former followers of the religious group previously known as the Unification Church and their supporters have petitioned the government ask a court to issue an order to remove the group's legal status as a religious corporation. The campaigners on Friday…[Continue Reading...]

Raniere, Bronfman lose federal appeals in NXIVM case

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Clare Bronfman, convictions affirmed, Keith Raniere, NXIVM, sex cult

NEW YORK – A federal appeals court in Manhattan on Friday upheld the conviction and 120-year prison sentence of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, rejecting arguments that the purported self-help guru from Saratoga County who is widely known as a cult…[Continue Reading...]

cult, sex cult, FLDS, Arizona, polygamy

Published December 9, 2022 By admin with Comments 1

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged Arizona, criminal charges, FLDS, Polygamists, Samuel Bateman

Watch this video featuring former cult victim Flora Jessop, an activist helping polygamist children that are sex trafficking victims.[Continue Reading...]